Sunday catch up

As usual, my blogging is only intermittent. Since my last post, I’ve:
- re-read Mansfield Park and confirmed I like Fanny Price and love Jane Austen.
- visited 19th century Vienna with Lady Emily Ashton.
- been inspired by Vulpe Libris’s children’s week to revisit some of my favourites, starting with The Railway Children, which still makes [...]

In a glass darkly by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, 1872

My reading of ghost stories and the horror genre in general has been negligible- Frankenstein, Dracula, a few stories by Edgar Allen Poe and Charles Dickens and the odd Steven King novel is about it. So it was on no more than a whim that I bought In a glass darkly in a second-hand bookshop, [...]